Loom-temple.



No. 763:619. PATENTED JUNE 28, 1.904. P. MAOPHERSON.

LOOM TEMPLE.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 28, 1904.

PATENT Fries.

PETER MAOPHERSON, OF WVOROESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CROMPTON & KNOWLES LOOM WORKS, OF VVOROESTER, MASSACHU- SETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

LOOM-TEMPLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,619, dated June 28, 1904.

Application filed March 26, 1904.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, PETER MAcPHnRsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loom-Temples, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to loom-temples; and the object of my invention is to improve upon the construction of a loom-temple as ordinarily made.

My temple is designed particularly to be used on looms which have change shuttleboxes at one or both ends and adapted to Weave fancy goods of silk or light material which may have a number of filling-repeats, as stripes, &c., of the same filling.

It will be understood that in change-shuttlebox looms a number of shuttle-boxes having shuttles therein will be at rest when the loom is in operation and filling-threads from these shuttles will extend to the edge of the fabric and must pass through the temple as the fabric is woven and taken up. The fillingthreads of the shuttles not in use will slacken on the selvage and in passing through the temple are liable to be entangled and even to be wound around the rotary toothed roll or bur of the temple and be broken.

In my improvements I provide at the outer end of the toothed roll or bur, and forming an extension thereof, a guide, preferably of cylindrical shape, with beveled ends, over which guide the filling-threads of the shuttles not in use pass and are guided and held away from the toothed portion of the rotary roll or bur, and thus prevented from becoming entangled or wound around said roll, as above described.

Referring to. the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional plan View of a loom-temple embodying my improvements and showing a portion of the warp-threads and of the woven fabric. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section through the temple looking in the direction of arrow a, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 3 3, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of arrow Z), same figure; and Fig. 4 is a cross-section on arrow 6, same figure.

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Serial No. 200,086. (No model.)

line 4 4, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of In the accompanying drawings, 1 is the pod, having the extension 1 thereon with a slot 1 therein, by means of --which the temple is attached to its support on theloom in the 2 is the removable cap or cover, which has the downwardly-extending ear 2- with a hole therethrough-to receive the pin or stud 3, which has the threaded portion 3 thereon to screw into a threaded hole in the end of the pod 1 to secure the cap or cover 2 thereto in the usual way.

The inner end of the pin 3 extends into an opening 2 in the inner end of the cap 2, (see Fig. 2,) and on the pin 3is loosely mounted, to have a rotary motion, the toothed roll or bur 4, having the teeth 4 thereon.

The length of the toothed roll 4 is less than the length of the chamber 5 within the pod 1 and cap 2, as shown in Fig. 2. Said roll 4 has in this instance a circumferential groove 4 therein, into which extends a projection 1 on the inner surface of the pod 1. The projection 1', in connection with the groove 4, serves to prevent endwise motion of the roll 4.

Mounted on the pin 3, intermediate the outer end of the roll 4 and the outer end of the chamber 5, isa guide or spool 6, preferably of cylindrical shape, with inclined or beveled end portions 6.

The guide 6 is preferably held stationary and prevented from rotating on the pin 3, in this instance by a pin 7, extending in a slot or notch 6 in the outer end of the guide and secured in the end of pod 1, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

The inner surface of the end of the pod 1 is preferably recessed to receive the end of the guide 6, as shown in Fig. 2, and the end of the roll 4 is preferably recessed to receive the other end of the guide 6, as shown in Fig. 2. By this construction there is no crack the temple in the cover 2 and also an opening 10 in the rear side of the temple in the cover 2 and also in the pod 1 (see Fig. 3) for the filling-threads 8 from the shuttles not in use to pass through.

In practice in the operation of the loom with my improved loom-temple the fillingthreads 8 from the shuttles not in use will pass through the opening 9, over the top of the guide 6, and through the opening 10 and be guided and kept away from the toothed roll 4 by the beveled end 6 on the guide 6, as shown in Fig. 1. The filling-thread 11 from the shuttle in use will not pass into or through the temple. The filling-threads 8, passing over the guide 6, will be drawn tighter and form the upper selvage edge on the fabric. The edge of the Woven fabric 12 passes through the temple, as is customary, and is held by the toothed roll 4 and causes said roll to revolve as the woven fabric is taken up in the ordinary Way.

It will be understood that the details of construction of my improvements may be varied, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i 1. In a loom-temple, a guide for the fillingthreads of the shuttles not in use, said guide located within the temple, intermediate the outer end of the toothed roll and the end of the pod, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a loom-temple, a cylindrical guide, located within the temple, intermediate the outer end of the toothed roll and the end of the pod, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a loom-temple, the combination with the rotary toothed roll, and the pin on which it is mounted, of a guide for the filling-threads from the shuttles not in use, also mounted on said pin, said guide having inclined or beveled ends, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a loom-temple, the combination with the pod, and a cap or cover, and the pin with a threaded portion thereon to secure the cover to the pod, of a rotary toothed roll mounted on said pin, and a cylindrical guide also mounted on said pin, intermediate the outer end of the toothed roll and the end of the pod, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a loom-temple, the combination with the pod, and a cap or cover, and the pin with a threaded portion thereon to secure the cover to the pod, of a rotary toothed roll mounted on said pin, and having a recess therein to receive the end of a guide, and said guide having inclined or beveled ends also mounted on said pin, between the outer end of the roll and the end of the pod, substantially as shown and described.

PETER MACPHERSON.

Witnesses:

J. O. DEWEY, M. HAAS. 

